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Original Title:	Open Secrets
ISBN:	0679755624 (ISBN13: 9780679755623)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	WH Smith Literary Award (1995)

Open Secrets Paperback | Pages: 304 pages

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Title	:	Open Secrets
Author	:	Alice Munro
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	November 7th 1995 by Vintage (first published 1994)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Contemporary

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In these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected. She tells of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party, inadvertently lands herself a wealthy suitor from exotic Australia. And Munro shows us how one woman's romantic tale of capture and escape in the high Balkans may end up inspiring another woman who is fleeing a husband and lover in present-day Canada.

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Deea wrote: "Funny, ''The Jack Randa Hotel'' is the story I liked the most. I also liked ''Carried Away'' very much."I should read it again. I

I've been meaning to read Alice Munro for a while. karen put Canadian authors on my radar as a group with George Elliot Clarke, and brian's reviews of her books have been tantalizing. Then the gauntlet was thrown down by that sleazy architect-loving Blake. Well, not really, but I perceived a gauntlet. Architects suck!With the first story, I'm hooked. Amazing. I'm not even done with it yet, the very first story, but...so good. A simple tale that touches down on a solitary librarian's life like a

Open Secrets was my second Munro after Runaway, and she has once again lived up to high expectations. The stories are all tied (loosely or strongly) to the fictional town of Carstairs, Ontario, which gives them cohesion in time and space. And true to form for Munro, the stories themselves are almost compulsively easy to read. They flow so well and have so many tantalizing details that the reader is fully absorbed. Sometimes the endings can be ambiguous leaving room for wonder, as in the case of

from my 1995 notebook:Just finished Munro's Open Secrets - superb is not the word, for once the blurb is right - miraculous. Histories of people unravel, touch one another. The shock of those hidden depths - the child murderer in the title story, secret child abuse in Vandals. Strange, difficult, sets you thinking for days. Alice, I love you.

030119: incorporates old review. i think i have read everything published by alice munro (i think i will just call her aunt a by now). i have just finished her collection 'runaway', and decided to try a review of one or two of her stories i have not read in years (decades...). the first collection i had read was as a curious child, a paperback of 'lives of girls and women', then found an old copy of 'dance of the happy shades'. i read these easily, swiftly, and this was the first time i wanted a

Please, do not cross your arms over your chest, stubbornly protesting that you can't read short stories because you aren't given enough time to know the characters.That you're not going to invest in 50 pages of something only to have a new story suddenly taken away from you.Blah. Blah. Blah.Get over yourselves, people.When a character is written well, you can NEVER get enough of them. After 945 pages of Lonesome Dove, readers wanted more, more, and more of Gus McCrae. Larry McMurtry broke all of

Alice Munro's short stories get into my head and I like that in a book. When reading the stories in Open Secrets, I felt like I was actually living in that particulare time and place. Munro and Lahiri have made me a short story fan.